Historique
Rapport
The development of international drug control: lessons learned and strategic challenges for the future
(Le développement du système de contrôle international des drogues illégales : Leçons et futurs défis stratégiques)
Auteur(s) :
JELSMA, M.
Année
2010
Page(s) :
16 p.
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Éditeur(s) :
Global Commission on Drug Policy
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
MAR (Marchés / Markets)
Thésaurus géographique
INTERNATIONAL
Thésaurus mots-clés
DECRIMINALISATION
;
CONTROLE DES STUPEFIANTS
;
POLITIQUE
;
PARTENARIAT
;
MARCHE DE LA DROGUE
;
LUTTE
;
REPRESSION
;
PRODUCTION
;
HISTOIRE
;
EVOLUTION
Note générale :
Working paper prepared for the First Meeting Commission, Geneva, 24-25 January 2011
Résumé :
The emergence of more pragmatic and less punitive approaches to the drugs issue may represent the beginning of change in the current global drug control regime. The spread of HIV/AIDS among injecting drug users, the overcrowding of prisons, the reluctance in South America to remain a theatre for military anti-drug operations, and the ineffectiveness of repressive anti-drug efforts to reduce the illicit market have all contributed to the global erosion of support for the United States-style war on drugs. Over the last decade rapidly widening cracks have begun to split global drug control consensus. The zero-tolerance ideology is increasingly challenged by calls for decriminalisation, harm reduction and embedding human rights principles in drug control. And in recent years the merits of a regulated legal market for cannabis has been accepted as part of the mainstream debate about a more effective control model.
This paper describes how the foundations for the global control system were established, the radicalization of the system toward more repressive implementation, consequently leading to soft defections and de-escalation efforts becoming more widespread; and in the last section projects a future for the ongoing reform process toward a modernization and humanization of the control system’s international legal framework as laid down in the UN drug control conventions.
This paper describes how the foundations for the global control system were established, the radicalization of the system toward more repressive implementation, consequently leading to soft defections and de-escalation efforts becoming more widespread; and in the last section projects a future for the ongoing reform process toward a modernization and humanization of the control system’s international legal framework as laid down in the UN drug control conventions.
Affiliation :
Transnational Institute (TNI), The Netherlands